Chris Gower
Sr Alliance Manager at Optro | Building high-impact partner ecosystems
- Role
- Sr Alliances Manager at Optro
- Location
- Asheville, NC, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Chris Gower
A trusted voice in the modern hybrid workplace, with extensive experience establishing, leading and growing strategic global partnerships.Over the past decade I have developed substantial expertise and demonstrated significant success focusing building Microsoft alliances for companies spanning a number of diverse industries from eCDN to VDI to CCaaS; most notably responsible for consecutive Microsoft Partner of the Year awards in FY22 and FY23.In my spare time, I lean heavily into my creative side. I am a lifestyle and event photographer, have written for the BBC and Men\'s Running magazine, have run marketing campaigns for a New York City soccer academy, managed social media campaigns for two major book launches. You can find my photography work over at chrisgower.com
Experience
Sr Alliances Manager
Mar 2026 — Present · NC, US
Education
University of Lancashire
Bachelor (with Honours), Journalism
2002 — 2006
Skills
- Solution Selling
- Voice Over Ip (Voip)
- Webex
- Crm
- Salesforce.com
- Leadership
- Collaboration Solutions
- Sales
- Direct Sales
- Tandberg
- Solution-Oriented Selling
- Cold Calling
- Managed Services
- Cloud Computing
- Unified Communications
- Ucaas
- Business Development
- Telecommunications
- Channel
- Management
- Customer Relationship Management (Crm)
- Selling
- Hosted Services
- Business-to-Business (B2b)
- International Sales
- Mpls
- Voip
- Channel Partners
- Ocs
- Strategic Partnerships
- Networking
- Uc
- Webcasting
- Sales Operations
- Professional Services
- Sales Process
- Lead Generation
- Video Conferencing
- Enterprise Software
- Webinars
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